The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-05-20

there are several war parties Of Canadian
Indians on this aide Of the lipc. aud trouble
may Be expected.
At Iowa City. Iowa, in Monday, several
small boys were playing in the barn OF Mrs.
Farrell, and SGT fire to the building. Kirk.
wood, the avc.year-old son Of Herbert g. Fair.
al, editor Of the Daily Republican,, was
burned to death. Leslie, son OF Prof, 4. N.
Booth, escaped badly burned.
A company has been organized at Pierre
known as the Duluth, Pierre and Black Hnls
Railroad company, which will at once proceed
With preliminary surveys and securing the
right of way. The company is aleo given a
right Of way through the city and ample
ground for depot and other buildings.
A steubenville, O., special says: Mr.. Van
Baker, OF Holidays Cave, W. Va, left home
Monday afternoon and, returning next morn.
ing, found hls wife and mother dead in the
sitting room With their heads mashed by q car
pin and an ak lying beside the bodies. Rob.
beryis supposed to be the motive Of the
murder.
The Milwaukee company hsve about forty
men at work On the improvements they are
putting in at Canton, Oak. The ncsy union
depot will be an elegant structure, 2JxS4, sur.
rounded by a platform $50 feet in length. A
large new doublc-derricked coal.shed and nine
yard tracks are other important improve.
mente. A large new freight depot will also
he built.
Miss Susie Davis, Of Lees Corners, Mich.
was tarred and fcathercd by ncighbors Nor
day night. 1t was alleged that she had been
unduly intimate with a doctor. She hadbeen
threatened with a coat of tar and feathers for
some time past. She has left for Kansas,
where the doctor had preceded hmp The lat.
ter leaves a wife and six children
Col. w. II. Bolton was on Tue d4y removed
from Chicago to Joliet under sentence of two
years for embczzling large sums collected by
him as chief of the mailing division in the
Chicago postoficc. His physicians certified
that he was temporarily insane, but United
States Marshal Marsh would allow no longer
delay in carrying out the sentence. When
placed on the train he broke down completely
and wept.
A masher who rcgistcrcdat the Palace hotel
at Springfield. ILL.,, on Tuesday, as D. Delhi,
of Chicago, insultcd the daughter of FIR. Key.
ser, representative from Kankakee county, in
the parlor OF the hotel, when the doctor pro-
cecded to chastise the fresh Delhi, others
present paying their compliments by a few
vigorous kicks, from which treatment the
mashcr escaped by flight. The last seen of
him he was flying through the alley from the
hotel.
Fosters opera house at Dcs Moincs, Iowa,
burned Friday afternoon. Loss, $4,000 In
s,rance, S25, 0CO. The fire originated about
the stage, and persons in the third story and
offices were Obliged to escape through wind.
ows aud down frcmen's ladders. Miss Hattie
Drake, a stcnograrhcr, was nearly sufrocated,
and was borne inscnsible down the ladder.
Fireman Patric Lynch, who saved her, nearly
lost his life in doing SO.
The British steamship Bon Hope, from Vera
Cruz for New York, burned thirty miles of
Tybee Island Thursday afternoon. The off
Savannah. The cargo consisted If 115, 600
gallons of crude petroleum. The origin of
the fire is unknown, and spread so rapidly the
crew was barely able to take to the boats.
The steamer was valued at sl5o,0O0. The loss
on tine cargo is unknown.
The ST. Louis Supplies Manufacturing
company made an assignment on Thursday
afternoon. The concern has been doing
business for twenty years, and tho failure is
the result of u decline in business extending
over a period of years. The directors have been
advancing money to keep the business afloat.
Thursday they resigned, and the company
owed them about $780, 600. The total liab!l-
titles are Sl41, GOO. The company will not re-
sumo again.
Grand Master Workman powderly arrived
at Denver Monday morning aud was met at
the Depot by delegate knights ard escorted to
the hotel. Tie governor delivered Az eloquent
address OF welcome on behalf OF the state aud
Mayor Lee for the city. Tho grand master
was then introduced and Notwithstanding
suffering from n severe cold, spoke an hour
aud q half on s'Thc Aims and Objects of the
Order Of Knights of Labor" About 4,GG0
people were present.
A. New Orleans on Sunday II large crowd
We're collected on a wharf at the foot of n
street in the colored section witnessing a bap-
t!sm of colored people In the Mississippi,
when the railing gave WAY, prccipftating many
persons into tcep water, seven being drowned.
A white woman with q babe in her arms held
up the child long enough for it IL he taken
intpa boat and lis lie saved, when Size imme-
diatcly sank. ~ cclurcd woman was drowned
in exactly the same manner.
On Saturday afternoon at Lincoln, Neb., q
fire broke out in the dry house of a. s. Gol-
frey d Co.'s, $50 the livery harm of Vim.
Smith. Godfrej's lussi is estimated at SIS. COO;
insured for $4,000, divided between the
Phoenix, of Hartford; Phoenix, o! Brooklyn;
insurance company of North amefics. and the
.Eena. Smiths loss on the livery barn was
about 5000; insured for $500 in the CONT
mental. Six head of horses were burned. The
origin of the fire is supposed to be incendiary
Col. +. 7. Hood, one of the most prominent
and wealthy citizens Of San Antonio, Texas,
and Capt. Redmond, were indicted Wcdnce-
day afternoon by the federal grand Jury, OH
the ground of conspiracy to t;cfraud the gov
eminent revenue. The indictments are the
outcome Of wholesale smuggling transactions
on the Rio Grande border which have been
heretofore published. Other prominent stock
men here have been Indicted. As no arrests
have been made their names have not been
made public.
a dispatch from Flagstaff, A. T., announces